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Peanut allergic reaction 20 May 2013 | 03:36 am
I’ve used this blog for my professional interests thinking that my personal life just isn’t all that interesting. I still don’t think my personal life is of broad interest, but I’m going to describe w...
What the Reinhart & Rogoff Debacle Really Shows: Verifying Empirical Results Needs to be Routine 20 Apr 2013 | 03:51 am
There’s been an enormous amount of buzz since a study was released this week questioning the methodology in a published paper. The paper under fire is Reinhart and Rogoff’s “Growth in a Time of Debt” ...
Data access going the way of journal article access? Insist on open data 24 Dec 2012 | 05:36 pm
The discussion around open access to published scientific results, the Open Access movement, is well known. The primary cause of the current situation — journal publishers owning copyright on journal ...
Getting Beyond Marketing: Scan and Tell 9 Jan 2012 | 03:57 pm
I love this idea: http://nomoresopa.com/wp/. It’s an Android app that allows you to scan a product’s barcode and it will tell you whether the company that makes the product supports the Stop Online Pi...
Disrupt science: But not how you’d think 9 Nov 2011 | 08:29 am
Two recent articles call for an openness revolution in science: one on GigaOM and the other in the Wall Street Journal. But they’ve got it all wrong. These folks are missing that the process of scient...
Don’t expect computer scientists to be on top of every use that’s found for computers, including scientific investigation 9 Nov 2011 | 06:12 am
Computational scientists need to understand and assert their computational needs, and see that they are met. I just read this excellent interview with Donald Knuth, inventor of TeX and the concept of...
Disrupt science: But not how you’d think 9 Nov 2011 | 03:29 am
Two recent articles call for an openness revolution in science: one on GigaOM and the other in the Wall Street Journal. But they’ve got it all wrong. These folks are missing that the process of scient...
Don’t expect computer scientists to be on top of every use that’s found for computers, including scientific investigation 9 Nov 2011 | 01:12 am
Computational scientists need to understand and assert their computational needs, and see that they are met. I just read this excellent interview with Donald Knuth, inventor of TeX and the concept of ...
The nature of science in 2051 28 May 2011 | 01:00 pm
Right now scientific questions are chosen for study in a largely autocratic way. Typically grants for research on particular questions come from federal funding agencies, and scientists competitively ...
Regulatory steps toward open science and reproducibility: we need a science cloud 28 May 2011 | 11:17 am
This past January Obama signed the America COMPETES Re-authorization Act. It contains two interesting sections that advance the notions of open data and the federal role in supporting online access to...
